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Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!

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  So this is not going to be a chronology, and it's not even really about crossovers.  Sometimes the TVCU is about reconciling different versions of the same character.   I recently watched Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and there will be slight spoilers here, so you've been warned.   As I watched the movie, my brain kept thinking of how the cartoon could fit in the same universe as this sequel.   So following the events of the first film, and prior to the first episode of the cartoon, Betelgeuse and Lydia became friends, and Adam and Barbara went away.  The second is explained in the sequel.  Lydia found a loophole in the Handbook that allowed the couple to pass on.  That would have happened prior to the cartoon.  Perhaps Betelgeuse helped with this and that's how they became friends.   Then would follow the wonderful animated series.   Following the animated series, Betelgeuse, having fallen in love with Lydia, must have crossed some boundaries as he tends to do, pushing Lydia

Sleepy Hollow and Headless Menaces

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 Well, it's the 12th anniversary of the TVCU. Some years back, I did a TVCU Quickie on Sleepy Hollow.  There I said that the TV series wasn't in the TVCU.  Evidence since then has pointed that it is, but so is the original, very different story.  And so, there must be more than one Ichabod Crane and Katrina.  We already know there's more than one Headless Menace, or Ghost, as we've seen Headless Riders on motorcycles in the modern day.   THE SKETCHBOOK OF GEOFFREY CRAYON “THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW” (SHORT STORY BY WASHINGTON IRVING) Release Date: 1820 (Setting is 1790) Series: Legend of Sleepy Hollow The Story: Schoolmaster Ichabod Crane competes with bullyish Abraham Van Brunt for the hand of Katrina Van Tassel. Abraham constantly plays pranks on Ichabod to make him look bad. Ichabod is very superstitious, and at one particular party, Abraham takes advantage of this to relate many of the local ghost stories, including one of a Hessian soldier whose head had been lost